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by glimcat 15y ago
Yes. The obstacles are primarily cultural, not technical. You need to impedance match both simultaneously in order to break in, and ??? to seriously disrupt the entrenched players.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Good thing it's not called Hackerbook then. That's also a rather problematic conclusion to draw due to (a) sample size, (b) overgeneralization, and (c) the survey was framed as "will you buy"...so maybe they just don't play stocks, or have
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by glimcat 15y ago
I suppose it remains to be seen whether they'll sell as well at $249 and as a separate device vs. $149 and readily available as $100 and only needing one for both purposes. I suspect they'll sell, but at reduced volume and excluding major p
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by glimcat 15y ago
Close the office door and disable the NIC.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Sounds like a problem which can be solved via CSS hacking.
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by glimcat 15y ago
I like a little (cheap) abstraction in my device development. I can always go back and bitbang in Assembly later once I'm certain what I want it to do. I also think that reprogrammability is a significant feature for some of these IOT appli
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by glimcat 15y ago
Thanks. I knew they included Bluetooth 4.0, but Low Energy was left out of the specs page. I actually still can't find any mention of it except in CoreBluetooth - their site organization is a bit painful if you're not there to buy. There's
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by glimcat 15y ago
I'd develop the technology for asteroid mining.
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by glimcat 15y ago
You could sadly do better with an Arduino Mini and a Zigbee, if you had "Hello World" level knowledge of electronics and microcontroller programming. One of the big ongoing issues in this field is that sensor nodes need to be cheap, as you
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by glimcat 15y ago
Using bang syntax in the address bar is awesome. I still use Google fairly often, but via DDG. It shaves about 30 seconds off of the time it takes me to get a result. Most search tasks I do are "hand me that spanner" tasks. I don't want you
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by glimcat 15y ago
Use foobar2k via Wine. This bundle may work, or do it manually if not. http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=7726...
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by glimcat 15y ago
It depends. A/V assets are usually portable. Coding issues may range from having to transcode the whole mess to having to set a few flags ... but in either case, you then have to do testing & debug to make sure it works as expected (hah
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by glimcat 15y ago
Speaking as an engineer-designer: Apple's devices are better designed than a lot of the stuff out there, but they're still not that great. You can kick their asses on design if you actually find a case where there's a sufficient financial i
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by glimcat 15y ago
And that's why you can still charge a humorous amount of money to reboot someone's computer with a diagnostic disc in the drive.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Portrait, but switching to landscape as needed (videos, page's CSS isn't portrait friendly, Angry Birds). Also probably worth noting that I have a book-aspect tablet, I might have a different preference if it was less tall.
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by glimcat 15y ago
I've been at it on and off for something like 25 years and I still worry that I'm only an OK programmer. Start learning now, but I wouldn't bet the startup on someone who's just now learning to code.
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by glimcat 15y ago
It's a line of CSS difference. Do a user test.
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by glimcat 15y ago
I've been more considering technological solutions to the problem of governmental reform. The machinery of government could use some repairs.
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by glimcat 15y ago
It's an old idea, but one usually dismissed as ill-advised BOFH tactics which you shouldn't really implement. It's less "don't feed the troll" than "let's troll the troll at the expense of community trust." I'm disappointed to learn that it
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by glimcat 15y ago
Depending on the definition of "low traffic" and what exactly you plan to do, Heroku may be a free solution.
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by glimcat 15y ago
It isn't very clear from how you get from text mining to tasks.
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by glimcat 15y ago
"It is really surprising how bad some of the software is in film" I'd be interested in reading more about that if you want to go into more detail.
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by glimcat 15y ago
I came here to recommend this exact book. Great reference text.
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by glimcat 15y ago
In 2012, there was the Raspberry PI computer for $25. As much fun as I'd have with a Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab, the present isn't too shabby either. I've also seen someone fly a Geiger counter on an autonomous quadcopter, so there's t
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by glimcat 15y ago
"Designing with the Mind in Mind" includes a summary of time intervals which are significant for interface design. http://www.amazon.com/Designing-Mind-Simple-Understanding-In...
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by glimcat 15y ago
The "log jam" effect tends to mean that your inefficiency goes exponentially with the number of projects you're trying to juggle (where "projects" are anything which regularly requests time).
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by glimcat 15y ago
There are numerous such situations; it's a common pain point. The problem with taking it as a business opportunity is that it usually results not from anyone wanting to "fill the gap" but rather from licensing conflicts. There have been a f
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by glimcat 15y ago
Regarding startups, I would usually include the third line of the quote. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
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by glimcat 15y ago
"You think your solution is clever? Wait 6 months and you think it stinks." I can't even count the times I've put together a "clever" function only to find out that an optimized solution existed in a common library and I could have done the
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by glimcat 15y ago
I like it in principle, but I think the interface could use improvement. I had to click lots of stuff to get it to select only my city. I don't like the "window" tabs much. Maybe it would work better extracting text & attributes then le

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